Jasper County officials are seeking outside assistance to help identify apparent human remains found during a brush fire over the weekend.
Coroner Jeremiah Vaigneur said on Wednesday his office was in the process of sending the remains to a forensic anthropologist and forensic dentist, most likely somewhere in South Carolina.
Police began investigating Saturday after a landowner in the sparsely populated Gilmania Road area reported finding apparent human remains during a controlled fire on their property. Early observations indicated the remains “may have been there for some time,” according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office…